Congratulations to the Federal Way Public Academy Knowledge Bowl team for placing 7^th in the Washington State Knowledge Bowl Tournament for division – 2B.

The FWPA Knowledge Bowl team: Ho Yeung Chu, Owen Forsman, Winston Nguyen, Andrew Scott, Shay, Smith, and Odessa Von Ruden. 

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Congratulations to scholars Jaylah Lara, Ciana Nolasco and Ally Phan from Decatur High School, and Andrew Luu and An Pham from Todd Beamer High School, for placing at the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) State Competition by competing with over 4,000 students and qualifying for the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) competition.

DECA is a student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management in high schools around the globe.

Additionally, we would like to congratulate the Todd Beamer High School DECA Chapter for winning the Thrive Level recognition to send three scholars to the DECA Thrive Leadership Academy at ICDC.

 

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Congratulations to scholars Roha Thomas. Darshpreet Virk, Sophia Gill, and Rei Smith, who placed at the Federal Way Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament. Federal Way Public Schools was represented by students from Decatur and Thomas Jefferson high schools.

 

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Congratulations to all our scholar athletes from Decatur, Thomas Jefferson, and Todd Beamer high schools for their success and advancing to the Girls Bowling State Tournament.  

 

Congratulations to Chloe Bettelon and Sun Hong from Decatur High School for advancing to the State Bowling Tournament.

 

Congratulations to Brookelyn Dawson, Samiya Gildon, Emily Kropp, Presley Laird, Alena McDugle, and Malia Tewey from Thomas Jefferson High School for placing third in the Team State Bowling Tournament. 

 

Congratulations to Jazel Tiquia from Todd Beamer High School for placing 23rd in the Individual State Bowling Tournament.

 

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Congratulations to Alex Nguyen, Andrew Ngueyn, Thomas Sinn, and Ethan Tandio from Todd Beamer High School scholar athletes for their success and advancing to the Boys Swimming State Tournament for three events: 

• The 200 Medley Relay
• 200 Freestyle
• and 100 Butterfly event 

Congratulations to Keanu Earnest, who has been chosen as the 2023 Federal Way Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year! Keanu was recognized by the Federal Way Boys and Girls Club for this prestigious award for demonstrating leadership, service, academic excellence, and dedication to living a healthy lifestyle. 

Keanu was honored at the King County event and also received a $500 scholarship. His goal is to attend college after high school.

 

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Congratulations to our Special Olympics Basketball Team, Federal Way Stars, for winning the State Championship Senior Division!

FWPS partners with Special Olympics to offer scholars with disabilities the opportunity to participate in athletics and be empowered with a sense of belonging.

The team competed through the King County Sub Regionals and the King County Regionals tournaments to win both gold medals and was later awarded the State Championship.

Congratulations to Jun Frame, Jackie Bagley, Ammar AlQaraghuli, Dylan Ortiz De Anaya, Osman Hamid, Grace Salavea, Abdelaziz Hamid, and coaches Terry Lathan, Tony Schoeler, and Evan Jordan. 

We are #FWPSProud of team Federal Way Stars!

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Congratulations to three of our Federal Way High School scholars for winning awards at the 2023 Regional Thespys.

The International Thespian Excellence Awards recognize the highest level of achievement in school theatre performance, technical theatre, writing, and filmmaking.

Congratulations to Wilbur Anderson, Hannah Rose, Lucy Amonn, coaches, teachers and staff. We are #FWPSProud of you all!

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Congratulations to Federal Way High School scholars, Emma McCann and Graciela Knudsen for earning the Cambridge International AS Level Scholar Award with Merit. 

This prestigious award was issued by Cambridge Assessment International Education to recognize their outstanding performance in the Cambridge International June 2022 exams. 

The Cambridge examinations are taken by learners in over 40 countries around the world and acknowledge scholars for their exemplary academic performance. 

We’re #FWPSProud of our scholars for demonstrating academic excellence within our local and global community.  

Congratulations to the 33 Thomas Jefferson High School mathletes for their participation and success in the Math is Cool State Masters Competition. The competition consisted of over 200 students with schools across the state competing with one another.  

Congratulations Nash Heo (first place overall in the Pre-Calculus Division), Sanchit Sharma (second place overall in the Algebra 2 Division), and Jenny Luong (third place overall in the Pre-Calculus Division).

Congratulations to the Evergreen Middle School team for their success and advancing all the way to the semifinals of the First LEGO League Competition! 

Evergreen Middle School competed against 30 qualifying teams and over 200 students from the greater Puget Sound area.

Congratulations to our Woodmont K-8 and Meredith Hill Elementary scholars for their success and placing in the Elementary Math Bonanza competition. Our scholars placed first, second, and third in the 5^th grade division!

Congratulations Woodmont's Kaiden Shinn (first place in the fifth grade division), Woodmont's Asher Bonnah (second place in the fifth grade division), and Alejandro Ortiz (third place in the fifth grade division).

Congratulations to scholars from each of our comprehensive high schools who competed against students from 23 schools in the regional Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) competition and placed high enough to move onto the state conference!  

Overall, there were 568 entries in 28 different categories (some individual and some team events). The competition results are based on an average of a written test score and role-play scores. Only the top 7 advance to the State Competition.

DECA is a student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management in high schools around the globe.